Brady vs. Manning, Kaepernick's second coming, the power of Seattle's 12th man — today promises to be a good day in sports.

It also, however, signals the death knell for the fantasy sports world. It had playoff football as a thin string to hang from for a couple of weeks, but now there are only three games left, for not even the NFL pretends to be able to make a contest out of the Pro Bowl.

The Diamondbacks kick off spring training in the not-too-distant future, but even they don't have pitcher and catchers reporting until Feb. 6. Many teams don't require those players for another 10 days, though. Clearly we need something to fill this space.

Rumors abound that the NBA and NHL are in season, but going to NBA.com shows that its fantasy offering only consists of linking to yahoo.com's standard game. How boring.

The NHL does it a little better, offering its daily Hat Trick Challenge. One can go to NHL.com, answer three questions about that day's games, and get a point if you get them all right.

It is too late to win the overall contest, but there are still monthly prizes of $250 to the website's shop that I suppose aren't too awful.

Then I realized that for some odd reason, ESPN televises bowling after its Sunday NFL Countdown show — as everyone turns the channel to a real game. That reminded me that I wrote about fantasy bowling once upon a time.

Turns out I must have had great timing when I did do that for a Google search of "fantasy bowling" results in a top hit of Palm Springs Bowling Lanes at Fantasy Springs Resort.

The second hit touted the fact that PBA Fantasy Bowling was back for the 2007-08 season.

Alas, it is now 2014.

But that means it is an Olympic year, and that has to be good for something, right? It is, but only if something is the game at fantasyolympian.com. It requires you to have a league of 10 teams, though, to compete for the site's overall prize. And there's no way you have nine friends interested enough to enter it with you.

Since that prize is only grudging admiration from other site users, you aren't missing much.

Once this year's Olympics get you hooked on curling, however, there is a fantasy game on curlingzone.com. Apparently there's a World Curling Tour that its game follows. Who knew? I mean, other than the rest of the world, apparently.

One's best bet for offseason fantasy entertainment may be located at golfchannel.com, whose fantasy section offers the type of extensive coverage usually reserved for the bigger sports.

All that information doesn't just cover the PGA, either, which is good, because don't pretend you wouldn't have needed some help to make an educated guess as to who'd be hot at the European Tour's stop in Abu Dhabi this weekend.

For those of you still battling through the football season playing weekly contests, you get a treat today as both conference championships are rematches from earlier this season, giving a collection of evidence that could help you make your choices.

Things seem to have turned completely, however, since the Broncos and Patriots faced each other last.

Back on Nov. 24, Denver ran over New England, winning the rushing battle, 280 yards to 116. Brandon Bolden even led the Pats that game, running 13 times for 58 yards. Recent breakout star LeGarrette Blount hadn't started his meteoric rise yet, carrying only two times for 13 yards

Peyton Manning set multiple NFL passing records this season, but Tom Brady out-tossed him in the game, 344 yards to 150. That led to New England's Julian Edelman being the best receiver on the day, hauling in nine catches for 110 yards and two scores.

Of possible note, Broncos tight end Julius Thomas did not play in the game. Some of the space Manning did find against the Patriots' defense, though, still involved the position as Jacob Tamme caught a team-high five passes (he had only 20 on the season), including his only touchdown on the year, for 47 yards.

NFC: Seahawks vs. 49ers

Seattle and San Francisco met on Dec. 8 and had the defensive battle one would expect between teams that finished the regular season ranked first and fifth in total defense, respectively.

Both Russell Wilson (199 passing yards) and Colin Kaepernick (175) had mild days through the air, each throwing a single TD and interception.

Anquan Boldin still put together a good receiving game amid those numbers, hauling in six passes for 93 yards. For those who get points per reception, Golden Tate matched him with six catches, though for only 65 yards.

The offensive star of the first game was Frank Gore, who had 17 carries for 110 yards. Marshawn Lynch had a more difficult time finding beast mode, rushing 20 times but for just 72 yards, although he did have the game's lone rushing touchdown.

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